Their round mud houses are actually quite tolerable even when the outside temperature is 115 deg. F. But their life could improve a lot if we can build schools, basic hospitals, and roads. There is plenty of sunshine, therefore, solar power can provide light for the kids to do school home work. Infact, they can use the solar distillation to purify the brackish water they drink.

As far as water resources are concerned, they need to work on community base rain harvesting rather than individual family pot holes. A field of large plastic sheet can harvest more runoff during the monsoon season than a small plot for each family. Futhermore, there are available several geophysical techniques to tell ahead of excavating a well, as to where the sweet water might be. That will save lots of man hours to excavate a well which ends up in brackish water.

The Assoc. of Pakistani Scientists and Engineers of North America (www.apsena.net) will be very much interested in transfering these technologies.